The young U19 Squad of Canada is having a rough time out in the middle in the ongoing West Indies U19 One-day Championships, having lost their five matched played so far and one final group match remaining.
The Windies regional U19 One-day Championship is being played from 16th – 29th Aug, 2018 at Arnos Vale Playing Field, Sion Hill Playing Field, Park Hill Playing Field, and Cumberland Playing Field in St. Vincent.
The experience of playing the top U19 players in West Indies will however be beneficial in the longer term when Canada U19 take part in ICC U19 CWC Americas Division 1 qualifiers in 2019.
There have been few notable performances in the tournament so far amongst the disappointing results with Kavian Naresh emerging as a potential future International having made two half-centuries in the tournament and is currently the leading run-scorer for Canada U19 with 121 runs in the matches played so far. Naresh has also picked up wickets, displaying his all-round capabilities.
Raqib Shamsudeen has also been among the runs, with 86 runs to his name so far in the competition. Randhir Sandhu is another youngster, who has shown positive intent at times in the batting department and doubles up as a handy bowler as well.
Brief Scores:
Match #1: Canada U19 146 all out in 38.3 overs (Kavian Naresh 57, Raqib Shamsudeen 24, Kevin Sinclair 4/23, Kelvin Umroa 2/23, Ashmed Ned 1/23) lost to Guyana U19 147/4 in 23.5 overs (Joshua Persaud 80 n.o, Baskar Yadram 20, Kevin Sinclair 16 n.o, Kavian Naresh 2/24, Gurjot Gosal 1/26) by 6 wickets
Match #2: Canada U19 93/8 in 30 overs (Eshan Sensarma 23, Rishiv Joshi 12 n.o, Sanjay Brown 3/12, Roberto Simpson 2/13, Dominic Samuels 1/2) lost to Jamaica U19 99/3 in 20.5 overs (Charles Brown 37 n.o, Andre McCarthy 36 n.o, Kirk Mckenzie 16, Randhir Sandhu 2/19, Rishiv Joshi 1/26) by 7 wickets
Match#3: Canada U19 59 all out in 25.4 overs (Eshan Sensarma 15, Jemuel Cabey 3/7, Zawandi White 2/1, Kian Pemberton 2/18, Javin Spencer 1/18) lost to Leeward Islands U19 63/2 in 26.3 overs (Uri Smith 26 n.o, Mikyle Louis 18 n.o, Harkaran Mann 2/16) by 8 wickets
Match#4: Canada U19 175 all out in 45.3 overs (Randhir Sandhu 42, Benjamin Calitz 36, Raqib Shamsudeen 16, Joshua Bishop 4/28, Camarie Boyce 3/28, Nyeem Young 2/23, Matthew Forde 1/23) lost to Barbados U19 176/2 in 34.4 overs (Mekhail Marshall 58, Antonio Morris 54 n.o, Nico Reifer 35 n.o, Shian Brathwaite 17, Kavian Naresh 1/29) by 8 wickets
Match#5: Canada U19 155 all out in 37.1 overs (Kavian Naresh 50, Raqib Shamsudeen 34, Jayden Seales 4/40, Avinash Mahabirsingh 3/6, Joshua James 3/37) lost to Trinidad & Tobago U19 156/0 in 31.2 overs (Cephas Cooper 71 n.o, Navin Bidaisee 67 n.o) by 10 wickets
